- artist:etnika
- style(s):Ethnic
- country:Germany
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Etnika
The etnika project was launched four years ago in August 2000 as an incentive to create a social awareness of Maltese musical heritage. The aim is to keep the music traditions alive and project the use of folk instruments and melodies onto a new contemporary context through performance.
etnika has since developed a reputation locally for presenting innovative music performances using a variety of local and contemporary instruments such as iz-zaqq, tanbur, zafzafa. In a fusion of ethnic and modern sounds, etnika is exploring musical ideas from around the Mediterranean in an attempt to consolidate a local identity within the larger Euro-Mediterranean context.
Labelled by critics as Malta’s World Music group, etnika have only recently completed the latest CD production by the title name Zifna. The production features a variety of Maltese instruments, melodies, children’s rhymes and lullabies in a generic style of the contemporary Mediterranean. The product is en par with any other music production happening internationally within the genre of World Music and is representative of a contemporary artistic expression of Maltese identity. It portrays a soundscape of the culture and evokes the sentiment of a Mediterranean culture. The aim has been to produce a style of music that appeals to all walks of life and transcends class barriers by giving value to our own cultural heritage.